Supporting hook



T. H. RYAN.

SUPPORTING HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 24,1921.

1,406,087, Patented Feb. 7, 1922.

INVENTOR WIT/158858 H F r UNITED STA 'rnomns HENRY RYAN, or EWARK,NEwJRRsEZ.

SUPPORTING Rook.

Application filed May '24,

T 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, THOMAS HENRY RYAN, a citizen of the United States,and resident of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey,have invented a new and Improved Supporting Hook, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a supporting hook, and aims to provide a deviceof this nature that is commonly known as a pot hook. v c

As is well known this type of hook is utilized by mechanics, whileworking upon ladders, and scaffolds, and serves as a supporting elementfor the receptacle, such as a paint can, whereby both hands of theoperator may be free, and the receptacle Wlll at all times be supportedina readily accessible position.

It is understood that mechanics have utilized'any available material forforming pot hooks. Aside from the fact that this has wasted themechanics time, the members thus provided have been extremely crude andinefficient, in that they have for the most part, supported thereceptacle in such a manner that it has been necessary to wire the hailof the same to the hook, and also to use great care in associating thehook with the supporting member from which it was to be suspended.

vThus it is an object of my present invention primarily to provide asupporting hook particularly adapted for use by mechanics and by meansof which the bail may readily be attached and detached therefrom so thatno delay will be incurred incident to this operation.

A further object of my invention is the construction of a device of thecharacter stated which may readily be attached to the supporting'memberfrom which it is to be suspended, and which when in attached positionwill reduce the liability of its accidentally becoming detached from thesup porting member to a minimum;

Still another object of this invention is the provision of a supportinghook which may be manufactured at an extremely nominal figure, thusovercoming any obj ection upon this point. 4

Still further objects of my invention will appear in the annexedspecification taken in Specification of Letters Patent.

7 Patented Feb. 7, 1922.

1921. Serial No. 472,034.

connectionwith the drawings, which latter ure 1 it will be seenthat thereference nususpended by means of my improved type of hook.

This hook preferably includes two major inter-connected portions, oneofwhich permits of an attachment to the supporting member, the second. ofthe same providing a quick detachable element'whereby the hail of areceptable or other element to be supported may readily be associatedwith or detached from the hook.

With respect to the first major portion it will be seen that the samepreferably is composed of a single length of wire, the ends of which aretwined about each other so as to provide a portion 8 possessing arelatively great amount of strength. That portion of the wireintermediate its extremities is bent so as to provide a hook] 9, theouter end 10 of which is outstritck so as to form a guiding lip toproperly guide the hook 9 upon the supporting member, such as the rungs6 of the ladder 5. The outer ends of the member described are spaced andterminate in loops 11.

The second portion of the supporting hook is also preferably formed byutilizing a single piece of wire, which is bent at a point substantiallyintermediate its extremities to provide a straight part 12, passingthrough the loops, and thus affording a swinging suspension for the bailengaging member. At points beyond the loops 11 the body of the lattermember is formed with coils 13 providing oppositely acting resilientportions, the outer ends of the wire being bent towards each other, asat 14, and terminating in upturned ends 15 lying against thecorresponding portion 14 of the opposite end restricted lower portion 17thereof.

of the member, and held in. intimate engagement therewith, by means ofthe resilient portions 13 aforedescribed.

It will thus be seen that the supporting hook is capable of associationwith a memher in the aforedescribed manner, and that the bail 16 of thereceptacle 7 may be engaged with that portion of the supporting hookprovided for this purpose, bysimply slipping the bail between theoppositely pressed ends of the lower part of the supporting hook, andbeyond the ends of the same, subsequent to whichthe bail may be arrangedtransversely of the body of the receptacle supporting unit and restwithin the Itvwill be obvious that in this position no liability of theparts becoming accidently detached will exist, and that the workmen mayreadily attach and detach the supporting element from the hook 9 as theoccasion will lie between the ends 15 and the clownwardly extendingportionsv 1 1 so that the same may freely be slipped out of engage- Iment with the supporting hook, it being noted in this connection thatthe ends 15 of the lowermost portions of the wire body are preferablyformed with undercut lips 18 acting as a guide for and expediting thedetachment and attachment of the bail 16 from the supporting hook.

that numerous modifications ofstructure,

might readily be resorted to without in the least departing from thespirit of my invent-ion, which I claim as; I

A pot hook comprising an attaching memher, a supporting member, eachmember being formed out of a single length of wire, the attaching memberbeing bent upon itself and twined about a point between its extremitiesto provide the same with a reinforced body portion, the outerextremities of said member being spread apart, and U shaped, the ends ofsaid extremities terminating into a pair of hooks aligned with eachother, with their axis of alignment transverse to the longitudinal axisof the twined body portion, said supporting member comprising a bodyportion held in said hooks, and bent downwardly, a pair of out- 7 wardlyextending coils having their axis parallel to said axis of alignment,and having its ends extended beyond their intersecting points, whichpoints lie directly below and between said spring coils, said ends beingadaptedto resiliently separate from each other, in a line transverse tosaid alignment axis. I

THOMAS HENRY RYAN.

